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Sixty feared dead in Ukraine school bombed by Russia, governor says
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) -As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said ...
May 08, 2022
Jill Biden meets Ukrainian refugee mothers and teachers in Romania
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Sitting in a classroom in the Romanian capital of Bucharest, U.S. first lady Jill Biden met a group of Ukrainian refugee mothers and educators on Saturday, praising the women for...
May 07, 2022 U.S. first lady Jill Biden and Romania's first lady Carmen Johannis visit the Scoala Gimnaziala Uruguay, or Uruguay School, in Bucharest, Romania, May 7, 2022. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS
ISU Board approves tuition hike
NORMAL, Ill. - It's graduation weekend at Illinois State University, but it will cost you more to graduate from there in four years. The ISU Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition by aroun...
May 07, 2022 (Illinois State University)
N. Korea fires likely submarine-launched ballistic missile, S. Korea says
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday, South Korea said, an escalation just before the inauguration of a South Korean president who has vowed to tak...
May 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meets troops who have taken part in the military parade to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) April 29, 2022. KCNA via REUTERS
Celebrating the Peoria Rivermen
PEORIA, Ill. - It might have rained on the Peoria Rivermen's parade, but that didn't stop the team and fans from celebrating the team's Southern Professional Hockey League President's Cup championship...
May 07, 2022 Courtesy 93.3 The Drive
Final goodbye for fallen Knox County Sheriffs Deputy
GALESBURG, Ill. - People are gathering Saturday to pay their final respects to a Knox County Sheriffs Deputy killed in the line of duty a week ago Friday. Funeral services for Nicholas Weist, 34, will...
May 07, 2022 (via Facebook)
Rich nations must stick to climate promises, says U.S. envoy Kerry
OSLO (Reuters) - The world's richest nations must implement their promises to keep alive a global goal to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told Reuters on Satur...
May 07, 2022 U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry poses for a picture in central Oslo, Norway, May 7, 2022. REUTERS/Gwladys Fouche
Pro-Russian forces say 50 more people evacuated from besieged Ukraine plant
UPDATED 9:20 a.m. KYIV (Reuters) -Pro-Russian forces said 50 more people were evacuated on Saturday from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where scores of civilians have been trapped for w...
May 07, 2022 FILE PHOTO: A young man evacuated from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol stands surounded by service members of pro-Russian troops and members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at a temporary accommodation centre in the village of Bezimenne, during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the Donetsk Region, Ukraine May 6, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Biden touts manufacturing, union jobs in battleground Ohio
HAMILTON, Ohio (Reuters) - President Joe Biden boasted on Friday of a U.S. manufacturing surge and introduced a new small business program in the key swing state of Ohio during his sixth visit there a...
May 06, 2022 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 4, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
Pekin apartments damaged by fire, one injured
PEKIN, Ill. - One person was taken to the hospital after fire broke out Friday afternoon at a Pekin apartment complex. Pekin Fire Chief Trent Reeise says crews were called to the scene on Valle Vista ...
May 06, 2022 (25 News)
